I live in York in the UK and geese literally rule the streets here. I am wise enough to cross to the other side of the road when I see them.

The book about Ravensbruck is fascinating / tragic reading.

or off the camera.

I’d say the notion that a bottle of Heineken can turn bigots, racists, sexists and transphobes into intelligent people is pretty much the same principle.

exactly. Changing a racist, sexist and transphobe into ‘enlightened people’ over Heineken is fucking delusional. It also legitimises opinions of these people, as they are given platform and the differences between these views are portrayed as equally justifiable.

the same problem occurred in the Brexit referendum. Somehow justifying institutionalised racism and demonisation of whole states even (Turkey for example) somehow became accepted as a political mainstream along the way.

or she has to think about if she doesn’t want to stay there, will she offend him and trigger some kind of a violent response?

that’s what I was thinking. Would I really want to give my number to this guy? Nope.

also maybe I’m a cynic but this is not how it would work in ‘real life’. Whether these people are volunteers or actors, they know they are being filmed, hence are unlikely to get argumentative or defensive.

why should long electoral campaign lead to ‘better’ democracy?

plus Russians have a long history of terrorising their own populations for political advantage, so this is certainly nothing unimaginable.

Well, it’s good to know that the American authorities will left no stone unturned in their relentless pursuit of this ‘great new evil’.

Kim’s robbery is one among millions of robberies that happen every single day and it doesn’t make news, so yup, my sympathy there is pretty limited, sorry.

but even if one out of let’s say 1,000 is innocent and then executed, you think that’s a fair price to pay?

This is a pile of bullshit. Europe is facing issues (largely caused by War on Terror and the resultant rise in far right-wing politics, so thanks US and UK!), but in terms of values and hopes for the future, it’s still the best this world has got.

actually, you can’t. Most of his opinions are just his personal beliefs, and anecdotal experiences. You can’t debate those intellectually. Person such as him will not see the statistics, history or whatever evidence there is outside of his preferred narrative.

it’s a very similar demagogic argument to the one that Soviet authorities used to say about crime in the USSR.

What does Czech Republic’s got to do with it?

on an unrelated note, how is this guy 31? He looks like he’s pushing 50. That’s probably what holding such retarded opinions does to your visage.

And too often, in the West what is considered is only the security threat that this poses for the residents of US (and Europe by extension).